[Discussion] CFP: International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch,2006 Conference

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From: Susan Fast <fastfs@mcmaster.ca>

Call for Papers
International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch
2006 Conference

Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering

February 15-18, 2006, Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee
Deadline for Submissions:  October 15, 2005

The conference organizers welcome proposals for papers, panels, or roundtables
on any aspect of popular music. We are, however, especially interested in
submissions that engage with popular music as it relates to the multiple and
intersecting technologies, identities, and geographies of the early 21st
century. Papers that re-examine methodological, analytical, theoretical, and
pedagogical terrain and/or that re/visit little explored genres, artists,
geographical regions, social differences, and/or identities are encouraged.  We
are aiming for as broad a representation of  disciplinary and interdisciplinary
perspectives as possible and hope for a conference that will bring emerging
perspectives on the study of popular music into dialogue. We would be especially
interested in proposals that deal with:
    *Local/Global musics, present and past: how do we understand globalization
(including notions of "the local") in the aesthetics and practices of
contemporary popular musics? How can we re-interpret the history of popular
musics in terms of the notion of globalization?
    *Popular Music and Social Difference: how are scholars thinking about
popular music and issues of race and ethnicity (including whiteness), sexuality
(including Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer studies of popular
music), gender (including masculinities), ability/disability?  How do the
intersection of these issues shape popular music?
     *New Media and Other Technologies:  trends in online music distribution,
digital recording, intertextuality and music "mash-ups," and other expressions
of music produced, distributed, and consumed using networks, computers, and
other new media.
     *Popular Music in the Classroom:  connections between theories of popular
music and student learning, including accepted and innovative ways to teach
popular music history, the pedagogical uses of popular music in classes across
the disciplines, ideas and evaluations of popular music curricula, strategies
for making popular music an established element of music education at both K-12
and college levels, or how popular music is or might be integrated into or
taught alongside Western art music and/or non-Western musics.

We would especially encourage proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables that
deal with aspects of the Nashville music scene(s) and, given that 2006 is the
25th anniversary of MTV, we would welcome proposals on any aspect of the
network, especially its globalizing strategies and local music television
resistance.

Proposals can be submitted online at
http://www.iaspm-us.net/conferences/. Proposals will be read blind by the
program committee. Proposals for individual papers and roundtables should be no
longer than 300 words. Proposals for panels should include an abstract of no
more than 300 words for the panel as a whole, as well as abstracts of no more
than 300 words for each paper proposed for the panel. The program committee
reserves the right to accept a panel but reject an individual paper on that
panel.

For questions about the conference, contact Susan Fast, Program Committee Chair
at 2006conference@iaspm-us.net. Submission deadline:
October 15, 2005.

--
Susan Fast, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Music
McMaster University
<fastfs@mcmaster.ca